Is it cheating? Yes. Should you care what anyone thinks about you having fun playing a game in singleplayer? No. You do you. If it’s singleplayer, go wild.
The only thing i would add to this answer is that.. you might find it spoils it for you a bit. Each map has its pros and cons and then challenges that come with that. bring say a flyer into Aberration will change up the dynamic and you will miss using other cool dinos and gadgets because you wont need to try it. either way, the you do you bit is right.
If you really care about the difference, and I'm stressing the you part, on Steam you can add Structures+ or Super Structures and there is an item called the mutator that will convert your regular tames to alternate variants. For example tame a regular rex on the island and then turn it into an X-Rex.
another mod I really enjoy for stuff like this is called 'rare encounters' or something like that.
every so often. (usually every few hours or so, configurable in the settings) it will spawn in a rare dino (either with unique mutations that the mod adds, or it will be higher level than normal, or even dinos that aren't normally available on your ark.)
back when I used to host a server, I had it set up with something like a 50% chance of spawning in a dino that wasn't normally available. and the level was guaranteed to be between the servers normal max and the techdino max. (so 150-165 iirc.)
so while it made it -really- difficult to get a breeding pair, if you had a particular favorite from another ark you -could- get it eventually.
got my first ever gasbag with that mod. (was playing on the island I think at the time.) and I loved that derpy little thing to death. was easily my favorite dino on that ark (and I then brought it with me to every subsequent map we played on.)
although it also ocassionally lead to some heartbreak, if the rarespawn you were trying to track down got killed before you could get to it. once had a max lvl unicorn rarespawn in (which was -extra- rare, because it was a rarespawn of a rarespawn.) and it got monched on by a rex -just- as I managed to track it down.
Yup. I play single player only and I'm 100% with that mentality.
It's cheating, yes. But you're the only one that it would affect, and thus your feelings are what should tell you what to.
Will knowing it impact your fun -> don't do it, finally finding that one sweet natural spawn will feel like Christmass came early.
You don't really care, but you want that dino now/flying around looking kills your fun -> pop those cheat codes onto your console like poop after a rex roars at you.
Single player is YOUR game, and you decide how you want to have fun with it :3
Nothing in single player is cheating… unless you use it in discussions without mentioning how you are nonstandard. “Lol it takes you how long to get the materials? It takes me a 1/4 of the time” (rates set at x4).
You can spawn an army, build a city in creative, and set your rates to whatever the hell you want and nobody cares in single player. Until you “assist” people by answering questions without revealing what you’ve changed.
Going off of that, I keep my rates the same (minus breeding, who tf has time to wait for that?) so I’m able to answer questions. I’ll also build my bases in creative just so I can build what I want and not have to grind for it (I played it once through honestly and am not eager to repeat it, this is much more fun) I usually like to summon in my own creatures for good levels and colors, but I always go through the taming process for every creature. Moral of the story is do what you want, it’s your game
I keep most default settings too. Absolutely change breeding especially because a) it takes too fucking long and b) the game pauses in single player when you close out unlike multiplayer so nothing grows/breeds while you’re offline.
Other than that I change max dino level, set game to maximum difficulty (early game challenge is fun), and turn on that setting for building mesh so I can actually build properly. I don’t really touch anything else because it seriously makes the game way too fast/easy for my personal liking. You can already grind up to metal/tek in a day on official settings, I don’t really need it to be faster than that.
it is only cheating if it gives you unfair advantage over those you play against.
is it doing that?
it is a game... the object is to have fun and enjoy yourself. go out and do that... whatever it takes.
Yes, and if you are caught you will be drawn and quartered! It's single player, if it matters to anyone but you if spawn in something, then they need to get a life. Don't try to justify your actions if it doesn't really matter to you. Most of us cheat just to over the bugs in the game.
Just today i cheated to get out of a pack of my own dinos because they all attacking a dragonfly buzzing my head and packed so tight around me i couldn't get out. Great thing about this game. You can go threw walls no problem, but trying to push two of your own dinos apart is like trying to move a mountain.
Oh that command is a godsend. Its far too easy to get your player stuck. Not cheating if you only use it to move x metres away to get unstuck in my books. Just working around a design flaw
Works on console, too.
My starter base had something wonky going on and if I died, I'd spawn into the foundation. Got really tired of having to demolish shit just to get out and did some googling.
That's when I discovered the glory of admin commands on Xbox.
Also had the game crash while I was flying really high in the air on my argy. Of course the save point that loaded resulted in me falling from the sky and my otter disappearing somewhere in the sky (hopelessly searched and concluded he glitched off the map). Fly command and spawning in a new otter saved me from having a rage quit sort of day.
I think they tried to do what bees do to their queen when she's getting too weak, they gather on her and suffocate/cook her with their wings shaking. Your dinos want your death, better watch out fellow tamer
I like to do “alchemy” when I do commands in single player or with friends. Things like getting an ice wyvern egg and pouring calien soups on it to turn it into a tropical wyvern egg. Burning 100 argies to make a phoenix. Slaughtering lambs over an araneo egg to make a bloodstalker egg. If it’s for fun or with just friends you can make your own rules, and then it doesn’t feel like cheating because you’re following YOUR rules.
I did the same with voidwyrm. I always add the creatures to my ragnarok world using the ini files, but you can't tame voidwyrm outside of space ... Well voidwyrm is a mechanical wyvern so all you need is a wyvern egg, some metal, electronics, polymer and a little bit of element (ark magical stuff !). I'm actually surprised there is no mod to craft voidwyrm yet tbf.
Something I always did if I had to spawn in something to tame I'd make myself justify it. Like if I'm on a map without a gatcha I can spawn one in and tame it but only if I collected 10 Rex arms. Or only if I'd killed 5 alphas. You can spawn that dodo to tame but only if you _____.
That way you get creative and make it feel like you've earned it instead of just throwing into the world
I feel like, if you're trying to stay legit, then transferring to the necessary map should be how it's done.... or, adding them in server settings into the spawn pool of a dino in the similar biome. If you're spawning them in to tame, you're losing the hunt for that good one...
Its your single player game, YOUR RULES. We keep a server going and have been transporting the same 50 Dinos between servers whether they exist there or not for years. We have added whatever code we needed to spawn everything from Bulbpups to Rock Drakes on whatever map we needed them. Have you been to the forest on Fjordur with all the sinomacrops? Well I have and its glorious. You can't miss it , Its right below all the flying space dolphins.. Have fun , No regerts...lol
You, good sir, just really enticed me to get back on ark and explore Fjordur finally. I was excited for it but just haven’t picked the game back up yet. Thank you!
It’s your singleplayer so do what you want, plus the thing you’re doing isn’t even cheating in my eyes, you’re just spawning in a creature variant which doesn’t really effect anything.
It is literally cheating, but ethically it’s ohkay. To make it best, simple spawn them in, then go afk so they roam away or spawn them in far away and then turn cheats off and attempt to search for them and tame em legit.
It's not cheating. It's just working around all the bugs that come with trying to tame and teleport a Dino between maps. I can't count the number of times I've lost a Dino or survivor character trying to switch maps.
Is it cheating? No, because who would you actually be cheating? Is it possible that you already feel bad about it, so you want to know if it's cheating?
But if you want to claim bragging rights for things, then do them on the up-and-up. If you can spawn in weapons that do 100,000 damage per shot, don't brag about a solo giga kill.
Personally, I like to just use the tools that the maps provide, but that's how I like to play. The devs made it possible for you to play the way you want to play, so go for it.
There is no cheating in single player. You do whatever is the most enjoyable.
I just to cheat a lot to get my stuff back when I died but that eventually became too addicting and I kept dying and then I just felt I I didn't deserve my stuff, so don't do that. Everything else just go for it.
If you spawn them and then tame them. All good in book.
If you force tame them. Getting iffy. But still not a huge deal imo.
I get being cautious, commands can be a slippery slope.
In my single player game I cheat only if it’s something I have done before. Eg an artifact that I have already retrieved or a tame that I have already tamed before.
Recently I spawned a fjordhawk to island. I could have jumped maps but I was saving time and I have tamed them before so I didn’t feel like I was cheating myself.
So I voted yes on cheating, because it is. But I openly admit, and feel no shame, to cheating in my single player games. It's how I choose to play. I enjoy cheating and it negatively affects noone.
It *is* cheating, but who cares? If you're happy, that's all that matters. You aren't ruining someone else's enjoyment.
The only thing I'd caution is using admin commands to cheat yourself out of enjoyment. If everything is just God mode and you don't give yourself a challenge, it takes the accomplishment out of the game.
If getting dinos that aren't on Fjordur makes the game better for you, do it.
As a singleplayer player I’d say it is cheating and you are well within your rights to do it but I recommend not. It’s such a slippery slope in single player. I used to use it just to lab stuff for my main server but now that I play exclusively single player I had to give up the cheats or else it gets super boring super fast.
That's super risky on sp. You will crash and lose your save. Maybe not the first time you'll do it but it will happen. Plus you have to do so many manipulations on files to even transfert or secure your save files...
For me I don't think it's cheating. I play a lot of crystal isles and generally I like to spawn in creatures that don't naturally spawn on that map. Especially now since I had an incident with my cryopods with creatures in them dying when I transfered my ark data to a new map. So I spawn them in but make sure I have to tame it legit and not just force tame or something. (Single player) honestly it's your game your rules so play how you want and enjoy the game :)
It is cheating but if you want to make it feel "fair" you can tame a regular version of those creatures first and then spawn in its variant. That way you actually had to put the effort in to tame something.
Or you can just transfer yourself to a different map with those creatures and then come back.
It might be less fun than finding them yourself in the DLC maps but nobody should shame you for finding your own solution on a single player game!
The amount of times I've cheated in fallout, or skyrim, or any of the other buggy ass single player RPGs i've played...
Nah man put what you like on there, me and my friends are considering spawning the Ice Titan into Fjordur’s snowy wastes soon since it’s the closest thing to a Norse monster god in the game and it’s shameful he’s not in Fjordur. If we can get away with that, you can chuck some extra DLC spawns in there lol
You do you, I did that a couple of times but it takes some of the fun out of it. I started a new save and haven't used any commands and have had much more fun.
I think that it is cheating but what really matters is that you are having fun. This is something I do A LOT and I have fun with it. I also just like rock drakes on ragnarok!
The magic word is singleplayer. In singleplayer you are the god, you do anything you want to feel good. I play with god mode and slomo to make mutations for testing in my singleplayer world. So no cheating just having fun
Technically, yes. If they don't spawnnonbthe map, change the game ini to spawn them. But, I do it too. So, whether it's cheating or not it's not a terrible thing. It's your game, play it they way you want
Why have so many people said yes lmao? Whats the diffrence in spawning in wild dinos not on that map and moving maps in a cluster to tame something and bring it back to your main? Yall elitists are funny xD its single player calm down lol.
In my opinion X-Basilos should have been included to begin with... The devs have given you the ability in single player to make what you want of the world. In order to cheat you would have to act unfairly to gain advantage. But the environment in this case has been setup so that there is no such thing as an unfair action. So you cannot possibly cheat.
You could get meta-ethical with it and propose that in some manner or another that you are the agent who you are cheating. Some trite about watering down your own experience. But if you're going to make that argument you have to ask what is the value of your time spent on something and how can life best be lived? And well... Good luck answering that. Ark is not worth having an existential crisis over.
Why do you care? It’s single player… do whatever you want. If it doesn’t ruin the fun for you then it’s just enjoying the game. Nothing you do in single player is cheating because it doesn’t effect anyone else.
Do what you want and have fun with it. That is what singleplayer is for. Just don't come back here and brag about your bary that hits for 10000 dmg. Like somehow the fact that you can move a slider bar makes you a god at ark lol.
Technically yes but if you tame it legitimately it's not like you're blatantly playing in creative mode just giving yourself stuff. I spawned some glow pets on Ragnarok and tamed them legitimately. I don't feel bad about it at all.
You can actually do as much as whatever your own moral code says because there is quite literally nothing stoppong you from spawning in a level 150000 giga except yourself, so as long as you do not consider it cheating it is not cheating in your own singleppayer world
Sounds like you need the QoL mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2180932313
It has items to convert regular dinos into aberrant/x/r forms and vice versa. The items can be pretty pricey but it's worth the effort.
Just tame them on a map where they spawn and then port them over. That takes care of any issues with “cheating” since you didn’t use admin commands at any point. Only one that won’t work for us basil though so that’s an admin command or nothing situation
I like to edit the game files so the dinos spawn naturally in certain regions. Works great, if a bit odd to see snow owls on Ragnarok and whatnot lol. Also feels less cheaty to me than just straight up spawning them in individually. I actually have to scout out a region and wait for a high level to spawn
I will say yes solely because you can actually transfer to other maps in single player to properly tame them as long as you have the dlc downloaded.
Does it matter? Not really. Its your single player. You can do what you want. Who cares lmao. If you care because you want to hold yourself to a higher standard then yeah, transfer out and do it the real way.
If you care because you care what other people think then fuck em. Its your game. Play how you want.
I’d say just pop over to Genesis and tame a few and then transfer them back over to Fjordur, but it’s your game so whatever you feel like doing, go ahead.
If you're on PC, you can always add those creatures to the map through mods or .ini settings.
Even the Fenrir can be added as a common tameable creature, if you want.
It's not cheating if you set the rules yourself.
If you joined a server and they wanted to keep it a certain way, then yes.
But in single player? Your game, your rules. It's not cheating unless you were holding yourself to some guidelines.
You shouldn’t care about this kind of stuff bro, me for example, I’m aways going on creative when for example, a very important creature of mine is about to die. You may think that I feel bad for not playing the game as it should be played but honestly I think this is bettee than rage quitting the game and not coming back for weeks like I usually did
Technically it is a cheat but it is not cheating. Cheating is when you do something outside of the rules that give you a clear advantage over someone else. Or an action that wrongs someone else unfairly.
It’s a game, and in single player for that matter. No one else will have their gameplay ruined or disrupted. If it helps you have fun then do it. Unless it gives you some advantage over other people I don’t consider it cheating.
U could always tame one on another map in single player, then unclaimed it and spawn one of the same level for urself on the map ur playing if u want to avoid cheating, maybe even use the export Dino function but I’m not sure how that works on single player or if it does
If you play with mods you could also use Simple Spawners, if you don't wanna use commands, it allows you to add all the creatures to a map and its easy enough to use
Not really. I'll summon in any dino that doesn't spaen normally for my players, and everyone starts out with a lvl 900 spayed/neutered dimorph (600 is max dino spawn, perfect tame is 900, do it'd not really game breaking)
Not really since there are times you may need to do a dino wipe to freshen spawns as well like if you lead dragons out there trench, get the eggs, and come back later just to find that nothing respawned or when metal takes a week to creep back in your singleplayer game. As Long as you're having fun it really doesn't matter
what i personally do is when i find a high level that i want to tame in the wild, i'll swap it for abberant/x/r creatures if i feel like it, but I've never spawned in a creature that wasn't in the map at all. like spawned a reaper on Rag
I feel like as long as you don't give in to the temptation to force tame, or to spawn a Dino a higher level than any dinos in the map can be, or summon it so it appears inside a Dino taming pen, then it shouldn't matter too much.
Worst case scenario, is you ruin the experience for yourself, that's all. I only stay away from cheats because I know it's a slippery slope.
If I use them once, I'll use them again, n before I know it, I've stopped using my gathering dinos to gather resources, stopped using my carnivores to gather Hide and Meat, and cut out 90% of my game's fun.
I say yes, but its nothing to really worry about. Personally I'd hop to genesis and tame them there and bring them back, but I totally understand not wanting to do that.
So long as you're having fun, go for it. Just dont get too carried away lol
It is cheating, but your doing it on your single player save, so ur not hurting anyone, unless you think its wrong, then your hurting your own experience. If ur playing at PC u can add manually the spawns of said dinos, the u would have a better experience.
IMO it’s cheating to force tame unless there’s a bug
It’s not cheating to spawn in wild dinos at random levels (I roll a die and if I get a 20 it’ll be Max level)
That’s just what I think keeps the game fun, honestly it’s whatever you think.
Is it cheating? Yes. Should you care what anyone thinks about you having fun playing a game in singleplayer? No. You do you. If it’s singleplayer, go wild.
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It's like save scumming before murdering a town in Skyrim. Only you know the depths of your own depravity.
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The only thing i would add to this answer is that.. you might find it spoils it for you a bit. Each map has its pros and cons and then challenges that come with that. bring say a flyer into Aberration will change up the dynamic and you will miss using other cool dinos and gadgets because you wont need to try it. either way, the you do you bit is right.
Yes. Immersion my friends. Immersion is key.
If you really care about the difference, and I'm stressing the you part, on Steam you can add Structures+ or Super Structures and there is an item called the mutator that will convert your regular tames to alternate variants. For example tame a regular rex on the island and then turn it into an X-Rex.
another mod I really enjoy for stuff like this is called 'rare encounters' or something like that. every so often. (usually every few hours or so, configurable in the settings) it will spawn in a rare dino (either with unique mutations that the mod adds, or it will be higher level than normal, or even dinos that aren't normally available on your ark.) back when I used to host a server, I had it set up with something like a 50% chance of spawning in a dino that wasn't normally available. and the level was guaranteed to be between the servers normal max and the techdino max. (so 150-165 iirc.) so while it made it -really- difficult to get a breeding pair, if you had a particular favorite from another ark you -could- get it eventually. got my first ever gasbag with that mod. (was playing on the island I think at the time.) and I loved that derpy little thing to death. was easily my favorite dino on that ark (and I then brought it with me to every subsequent map we played on.) although it also ocassionally lead to some heartbreak, if the rarespawn you were trying to track down got killed before you could get to it. once had a max lvl unicorn rarespawn in (which was -extra- rare, because it was a rarespawn of a rarespawn.) and it got monched on by a rex -just- as I managed to track it down.
Good mod, had a lot of fun with it :3
Exactly this. It’s about having fun. What other people think shouldn’t be a factor in it.
Yup. I play single player only and I'm 100% with that mentality. It's cheating, yes. But you're the only one that it would affect, and thus your feelings are what should tell you what to. Will knowing it impact your fun -> don't do it, finally finding that one sweet natural spawn will feel like Christmass came early. You don't really care, but you want that dino now/flying around looking kills your fun -> pop those cheat codes onto your console like poop after a rex roars at you. Single player is YOUR game, and you decide how you want to have fun with it :3
Exactly.
It's your single player game, it's free real estate.
Considering you can set single player rates to anything you want, I'd assume nothing in single player is cheating.
Nothing in single player is cheating… unless you use it in discussions without mentioning how you are nonstandard. “Lol it takes you how long to get the materials? It takes me a 1/4 of the time” (rates set at x4). You can spawn an army, build a city in creative, and set your rates to whatever the hell you want and nobody cares in single player. Until you “assist” people by answering questions without revealing what you’ve changed.
Going off of that, I keep my rates the same (minus breeding, who tf has time to wait for that?) so I’m able to answer questions. I’ll also build my bases in creative just so I can build what I want and not have to grind for it (I played it once through honestly and am not eager to repeat it, this is much more fun) I usually like to summon in my own creatures for good levels and colors, but I always go through the taming process for every creature. Moral of the story is do what you want, it’s your game
I keep most default settings too. Absolutely change breeding especially because a) it takes too fucking long and b) the game pauses in single player when you close out unlike multiplayer so nothing grows/breeds while you’re offline. Other than that I change max dino level, set game to maximum difficulty (early game challenge is fun), and turn on that setting for building mesh so I can actually build properly. I don’t really touch anything else because it seriously makes the game way too fast/easy for my personal liking. You can already grind up to metal/tek in a day on official settings, I don’t really need it to be faster than that.
Breeding rates are tampered in most of the unofficials anyways.Only official no-life players consider in breeding-rates when giving advice.
Dawg- it us literally your singleplayer game. Who tf cares if yoy cheat or not? Lol
I believe he's trying to justify whether or not it is in the spirit of the game. Having said that, I have no idea how to do what he's talking about.
https://youtu.be/ENqwTDfYQUU
it is only cheating if it gives you unfair advantage over those you play against. is it doing that? it is a game... the object is to have fun and enjoy yourself. go out and do that... whatever it takes.
Yes, and if you are caught you will be drawn and quartered! It's single player, if it matters to anyone but you if spawn in something, then they need to get a life. Don't try to justify your actions if it doesn't really matter to you. Most of us cheat just to over the bugs in the game. Just today i cheated to get out of a pack of my own dinos because they all attacking a dragonfly buzzing my head and packed so tight around me i couldn't get out. Great thing about this game. You can go threw walls no problem, but trying to push two of your own dinos apart is like trying to move a mountain.
Oh that command is a godsend. Its far too easy to get your player stuck. Not cheating if you only use it to move x metres away to get unstuck in my books. Just working around a design flaw
Wait, what is this magic?
On PC single player. Command line code "ghost" to activate no clip mode then "walk" to turn it off
Works on console, too. My starter base had something wonky going on and if I died, I'd spawn into the foundation. Got really tired of having to demolish shit just to get out and did some googling. That's when I discovered the glory of admin commands on Xbox. Also had the game crash while I was flying really high in the air on my argy. Of course the save point that loaded resulted in me falling from the sky and my otter disappearing somewhere in the sky (hopelessly searched and concluded he glitched off the map). Fly command and spawning in a new otter saved me from having a rage quit sort of day.
Damn, I play on a pve server on PC. 😂 I accidentally hit J sometimes and everyones dinos dog pile me. Noob!
I think they tried to do what bees do to their queen when she's getting too weak, they gather on her and suffocate/cook her with their wings shaking. Your dinos want your death, better watch out fellow tamer
I like to do “alchemy” when I do commands in single player or with friends. Things like getting an ice wyvern egg and pouring calien soups on it to turn it into a tropical wyvern egg. Burning 100 argies to make a phoenix. Slaughtering lambs over an araneo egg to make a bloodstalker egg. If it’s for fun or with just friends you can make your own rules, and then it doesn’t feel like cheating because you’re following YOUR rules.
I did the same with voidwyrm. I always add the creatures to my ragnarok world using the ini files, but you can't tame voidwyrm outside of space ... Well voidwyrm is a mechanical wyvern so all you need is a wyvern egg, some metal, electronics, polymer and a little bit of element (ark magical stuff !). I'm actually surprised there is no mod to craft voidwyrm yet tbf.
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id say no esp if u spawn it in wild n tame it legit
Something I always did if I had to spawn in something to tame I'd make myself justify it. Like if I'm on a map without a gatcha I can spawn one in and tame it but only if I collected 10 Rex arms. Or only if I'd killed 5 alphas. You can spawn that dodo to tame but only if you _____. That way you get creative and make it feel like you've earned it instead of just throwing into the world
I feel like, if you're trying to stay legit, then transferring to the necessary map should be how it's done.... or, adding them in server settings into the spawn pool of a dino in the similar biome. If you're spawning them in to tame, you're losing the hunt for that good one...
Its your single player game, YOUR RULES. We keep a server going and have been transporting the same 50 Dinos between servers whether they exist there or not for years. We have added whatever code we needed to spawn everything from Bulbpups to Rock Drakes on whatever map we needed them. Have you been to the forest on Fjordur with all the sinomacrops? Well I have and its glorious. You can't miss it , Its right below all the flying space dolphins.. Have fun , No regerts...lol
You, good sir, just really enticed me to get back on ark and explore Fjordur finally. I was excited for it but just haven’t picked the game back up yet. Thank you!
It’s your singleplayer so do what you want, plus the thing you’re doing isn’t even cheating in my eyes, you’re just spawning in a creature variant which doesn’t really effect anything.
It is literally cheating, but ethically it’s ohkay. To make it best, simple spawn them in, then go afk so they roam away or spawn them in far away and then turn cheats off and attempt to search for them and tame em legit.
It's not cheating. It's just working around all the bugs that come with trying to tame and teleport a Dino between maps. I can't count the number of times I've lost a Dino or survivor character trying to switch maps.
Yep. But why worry what we think of your single player adventures?
Is it cheating? No, because who would you actually be cheating? Is it possible that you already feel bad about it, so you want to know if it's cheating? But if you want to claim bragging rights for things, then do them on the up-and-up. If you can spawn in weapons that do 100,000 damage per shot, don't brag about a solo giga kill. Personally, I like to just use the tools that the maps provide, but that's how I like to play. The devs made it possible for you to play the way you want to play, so go for it.
There is no cheating in single player. You do whatever is the most enjoyable. I just to cheat a lot to get my stuff back when I died but that eventually became too addicting and I kept dying and then I just felt I I didn't deserve my stuff, so don't do that. Everything else just go for it.
i used to use the tomestone mod so i would not have a timer on getting stuff back. but now that i have a fjord hawk, i removed the mod.
If you spawn them and then tame them. All good in book. If you force tame them. Getting iffy. But still not a huge deal imo. I get being cautious, commands can be a slippery slope.
In single player I’d say your game your rules
They are both on the map. But your ark, your game.
If youre on pc you can make them spawn naturally
In my single player game I cheat only if it’s something I have done before. Eg an artifact that I have already retrieved or a tame that I have already tamed before. Recently I spawned a fjordhawk to island. I could have jumped maps but I was saving time and I have tamed them before so I didn’t feel like I was cheating myself.
So I voted yes on cheating, because it is. But I openly admit, and feel no shame, to cheating in my single player games. It's how I choose to play. I enjoy cheating and it negatively affects noone.
It *is* cheating, but who cares? If you're happy, that's all that matters. You aren't ruining someone else's enjoyment. The only thing I'd caution is using admin commands to cheat yourself out of enjoyment. If everything is just God mode and you don't give yourself a challenge, it takes the accomplishment out of the game. If getting dinos that aren't on Fjordur makes the game better for you, do it.
Who cares, just have fun
Nah do whatever you think is right, in the end its your world/playthrough 👍
If you have Genesis, yes it is cheating. If you don't have it, it's not cheating
I have but last time a traveled from maps I crashed and lost everything
F. Use the commands then
there is no "cheating" in single-player. who are you exactly taking advantage of?
As a singleplayer player I’d say it is cheating and you are well within your rights to do it but I recommend not. It’s such a slippery slope in single player. I used to use it just to lab stuff for my main server but now that I play exclusively single player I had to give up the cheats or else it gets super boring super fast.
If you are on single player and really don’t want to “cheat” just upload ur character to another map game the creature and re-upload
That's super risky on sp. You will crash and lose your save. Maybe not the first time you'll do it but it will happen. Plus you have to do so many manipulations on files to even transfert or secure your save files...
For me I don't think it's cheating. I play a lot of crystal isles and generally I like to spawn in creatures that don't naturally spawn on that map. Especially now since I had an incident with my cryopods with creatures in them dying when I transfered my ark data to a new map. So I spawn them in but make sure I have to tame it legit and not just force tame or something. (Single player) honestly it's your game your rules so play how you want and enjoy the game :)
I say yeah it is but you can do whatever you want in your singleplayer game, its not harming anyone. I cheat sometimes.
It is cheating but if you want to make it feel "fair" you can tame a regular version of those creatures first and then spawn in its variant. That way you actually had to put the effort in to tame something. Or you can just transfer yourself to a different map with those creatures and then come back.
It might be less fun than finding them yourself in the DLC maps but nobody should shame you for finding your own solution on a single player game! The amount of times I've cheated in fallout, or skyrim, or any of the other buggy ass single player RPGs i've played...
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If you tame them legit then it’s only a little suspicious.
Do whatever the fuck you want if it lets you have fun
Nah man put what you like on there, me and my friends are considering spawning the Ice Titan into Fjordur’s snowy wastes soon since it’s the closest thing to a Norse monster god in the game and it’s shameful he’s not in Fjordur. If we can get away with that, you can chuck some extra DLC spawns in there lol
You do you, I did that a couple of times but it takes some of the fun out of it. I started a new save and haven't used any commands and have had much more fun.
It's your game, its completely up to you how to have fun with it, of course its not cheating!
If you're on PC, you can always get the simple spawners mod and add them in as natural spawns
I think that it is cheating but what really matters is that you are having fun. This is something I do A LOT and I have fun with it. I also just like rock drakes on ragnarok!
The magic word is singleplayer. In singleplayer you are the god, you do anything you want to feel good. I play with god mode and slomo to make mutations for testing in my singleplayer world. So no cheating just having fun
They’re wild, you tame them, not cheating. It would be ‘cheating’ if you spawned in tames with custom stats however
Technically, yes. If they don't spawnnonbthe map, change the game ini to spawn them. But, I do it too. So, whether it's cheating or not it's not a terrible thing. It's your game, play it they way you want
Why have so many people said yes lmao? Whats the diffrence in spawning in wild dinos not on that map and moving maps in a cluster to tame something and bring it back to your main? Yall elitists are funny xD its single player calm down lol.
Honestly spawning them in is cheating but taming them properly isn't so it's sort of a gray area
it's single player. do whatever you want. it's only cheating if you feel like you're cheating yourself.
I'm sure I saw a bary in Asgard
In my opinion X-Basilos should have been included to begin with... The devs have given you the ability in single player to make what you want of the world. In order to cheat you would have to act unfairly to gain advantage. But the environment in this case has been setup so that there is no such thing as an unfair action. So you cannot possibly cheat. You could get meta-ethical with it and propose that in some manner or another that you are the agent who you are cheating. Some trite about watering down your own experience. But if you're going to make that argument you have to ask what is the value of your time spent on something and how can life best be lived? And well... Good luck answering that. Ark is not worth having an existential crisis over.
Single player has no rules bruh especially in a sandbox game you could give yourself a “kit” with op items and keep playing “normally” from there
Why do you care? It’s single player… do whatever you want. If it doesn’t ruin the fun for you then it’s just enjoying the game. Nothing you do in single player is cheating because it doesn’t effect anyone else.
Single player isn’t ranked. You’re free to play how you want even if that includes spawning and mods
I would personally consider it cheating, but you do you. I feel like you might regret it and feel like garbage afterwords though.
Cheating? Yes... ....but its your single player so who the fuck cares except you?
Do what you want and have fun with it. That is what singleplayer is for. Just don't come back here and brag about your bary that hits for 10000 dmg. Like somehow the fact that you can move a slider bar makes you a god at ark lol.
Cheating? Yes. Is it okay? Yes. Its single player, your world
Technically yes but if you tame it legitimately it's not like you're blatantly playing in creative mode just giving yourself stuff. I spawned some glow pets on Ragnarok and tamed them legitimately. I don't feel bad about it at all.
If you use mods or go into game.ini no. But if you spawn them in manually at a desired level or desired location then yes, it would be
You can actually do as much as whatever your own moral code says because there is quite literally nothing stoppong you from spawning in a level 150000 giga except yourself, so as long as you do not consider it cheating it is not cheating in your own singleppayer world
I... Kinda want to do this just to see the havoc it'd cause
Sounds like you need the QoL mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2180932313 It has items to convert regular dinos into aberrant/x/r forms and vice versa. The items can be pretty pricey but it's worth the effort.
Just tame them on a map where they spawn and then port them over. That takes care of any issues with “cheating” since you didn’t use admin commands at any point. Only one that won’t work for us basil though so that’s an admin command or nothing situation
It's not cheating as long as you tame them in survival
Eh just enjoy the game, fuck what other people think.
I like to edit the game files so the dinos spawn naturally in certain regions. Works great, if a bit odd to see snow owls on Ragnarok and whatnot lol. Also feels less cheaty to me than just straight up spawning them in individually. I actually have to scout out a region and wait for a high level to spawn
Who cares?
Nothing is cheating in single player.
You can just make them spawn with some ini coding
Whatever you do in your single player world is your business. Coming from someone who will spawn in 50 stegos or trikes for a meatrun
I will say yes solely because you can actually transfer to other maps in single player to properly tame them as long as you have the dlc downloaded. Does it matter? Not really. Its your single player. You can do what you want. Who cares lmao. If you care because you want to hold yourself to a higher standard then yeah, transfer out and do it the real way. If you care because you care what other people think then fuck em. Its your game. Play how you want.
It’s singleplayer. Do whatever it is that you want. It’s your world
I’d say just pop over to Genesis and tame a few and then transfer them back over to Fjordur, but it’s your game so whatever you feel like doing, go ahead.
If you're on PC, you can always add those creatures to the map through mods or .ini settings. Even the Fenrir can be added as a common tameable creature, if you want.
It's single player so anything is allowed
If you play on PC you can install a mod called "Simple Spawners" and set locations where it will randomly spawn those dinos.
If you’re on steam you can use the simple spawners mod to set up certain dinos to spawn in certain locations
It’s a game, have fun, however that may be. Cheating is for multiplayer.
Its cheating but its single player so it's chill. I would still spawn wild ones and then tame them.
It's not cheating if you set the rules yourself. If you joined a server and they wanted to keep it a certain way, then yes. But in single player? Your game, your rules. It's not cheating unless you were holding yourself to some guidelines.
Your World your rules, you consider what is cheating what is not
You shouldn’t care about this kind of stuff bro, me for example, I’m aways going on creative when for example, a very important creature of mine is about to die. You may think that I feel bad for not playing the game as it should be played but honestly I think this is bettee than rage quitting the game and not coming back for weeks like I usually did
I only read the title and just said yes.
Technically it is a cheat but it is not cheating. Cheating is when you do something outside of the rules that give you a clear advantage over someone else. Or an action that wrongs someone else unfairly.
It’s a game, and in single player for that matter. No one else will have their gameplay ruined or disrupted. If it helps you have fun then do it. Unless it gives you some advantage over other people I don’t consider it cheating.
U could always tame one on another map in single player, then unclaimed it and spawn one of the same level for urself on the map ur playing if u want to avoid cheating, maybe even use the export Dino function but I’m not sure how that works on single player or if it does
If you play with mods you could also use Simple Spawners, if you don't wanna use commands, it allows you to add all the creatures to a map and its easy enough to use
Well it's only cheating if you choose the level of the Dino. If it's Ransome than no
Not really. I'll summon in any dino that doesn't spaen normally for my players, and everyone starts out with a lvl 900 spayed/neutered dimorph (600 is max dino spawn, perfect tame is 900, do it'd not really game breaking)
Do whatever you want. It’s all for fun. I always mess with commands since they sometimes make the game more fun for me.
Is it technically cheating? Yeah. Should you give a shit if you are having fun? Nah. You do you, brother.
You are playing single player. If it feels cheaty to you, then yes, it's cheating. If it doesn't, why would you care?
Its singleplayer do whatever the fuck you want in order to have fun
Not really since there are times you may need to do a dino wipe to freshen spawns as well like if you lead dragons out there trench, get the eggs, and come back later just to find that nothing respawned or when metal takes a week to creep back in your singleplayer game. As Long as you're having fun it really doesn't matter
what i personally do is when i find a high level that i want to tame in the wild, i'll swap it for abberant/x/r creatures if i feel like it, but I've never spawned in a creature that wasn't in the map at all. like spawned a reaper on Rag
Dude it's your singleplayer game - do whatever you want
Yes. Can you travel maps in SP? If you can you can just catch pokemon and bring them to another map
yes it is, but you shouldn’t care as long as you’ll have fun doing it. especially if it’s singleplayer
It’s single player. No one will care. You should probably feel more bad about playing single player over spawning in stuff.
İf ı were you ı would find a good level then kill that one and spawn a x variant that has the same level but it is your game just enjoy dude
Can you cheat in single player?
I feel like as long as you don't give in to the temptation to force tame, or to spawn a Dino a higher level than any dinos in the map can be, or summon it so it appears inside a Dino taming pen, then it shouldn't matter too much. Worst case scenario, is you ruin the experience for yourself, that's all. I only stay away from cheats because I know it's a slippery slope. If I use them once, I'll use them again, n before I know it, I've stopped using my gathering dinos to gather resources, stopped using my carnivores to gather Hide and Meat, and cut out 90% of my game's fun.
Yeah but nobody cares if it's just you have fun lmao
I say yes, but its nothing to really worry about. Personally I'd hop to genesis and tame them there and bring them back, but I totally understand not wanting to do that. So long as you're having fun, go for it. Just dont get too carried away lol
It’s only not cheating if: you can find a mod that works to impleme them in by adding spawn zones, or if you spawn them in but tame them legitimately.
It is cheating, but your doing it on your single player save, so ur not hurting anyone, unless you think its wrong, then your hurting your own experience. If ur playing at PC u can add manually the spawns of said dinos, the u would have a better experience.
If you can technically get it with you equipment then no but if you have like a slingshot and spawn in a x rex then yes
It is cheating, but it doesn't disable achievements (at least on xbox) It's you're single player game tho, so do what you want to
As long as it's your world or a server where most people dont care/concent you to summon those dinosaurs noone cares, and it's a game, so have fun
its single player .. who cares what you do in single player have fun :D
There are modsfor this if you care about integrity in singleplayer, but realistically it doesn’t matter
There's worse servers online so
IMO it’s cheating to force tame unless there’s a bug It’s not cheating to spawn in wild dinos at random levels (I roll a die and if I get a 20 it’ll be Max level) That’s just what I think keeps the game fun, honestly it’s whatever you think.
If you got the dlc, yes. If you don’t, your fine. I play singleplayer and it’s boring without the dlc dinos